Friday, September 15, 2017

Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection

[We have the following announcement from Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.]

It is with great pride that I announce today’s opening of a landmark exhibit at the famed
Grolier
Club in New York City,
entitled "Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection." This
exhibit is co-curated by Michael Widener, our Rare Book Librarian, and
Mark S. Weiner ’00 (Professor of Law, Rutgers Law
School). It has already received coverage in the New Yorker, and
additional major publicity is expected. See below for further
description. I visited the exhibit yesterday and it is spectacular and
quite extensive. Mike and Mark have done a tremendous job
showcasing 140 of the many treasures in our collection.

"Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection" is on display September 13 - November 18, 2017, in the Grolier Club's main gallery at 47 East 60th Street in New York City. The gallery is open 10:00am – 5:00pmMonday
- Saturday except holidays, and admission is free. Mike Widener and Mark Weiner will be conducting exhibition tours on September 21, October 5, and November 2, 1:00 – 2:00pm.

On the evening of October 5, there will be a mini-symposium from 6:00 – 8:00pm at the Grolier Club, which will feature presentations by Mike Widener and Mark Weiner, followed by a panel
discussion moderated by John Brigham (U. of
Massachusetts-Amherst. Political scientist, a cultural studies of law
scholar who has published on law as mapping) and featuring
John Gordan III (lawyer, legal historian, book collector, Grolier Club member),
Eric Hilgendorf (Professor of criminal law at the University of
Würzburg, Germany, and author of one of the illustrated law books in the
exhibit, Dtv-Atlas Recht (2 vols.; 2003-2008)), and
Kathryn James (Curator of Early Modern Collections, Beinecke Rare
Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University; Grolier Club member).
There will be a reception at 8:00pm following the panel. This event is open to the public but
reservations
are requested.

On November 8,
the Law Library will host a talk in the Yale Law School that will
include presentations by Mike Widener and Mark Weiner, with commentary
by
Judith Resnik. A complementary exhibit, "Around the World with Law's Picture Books," is on view through December 15 in the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School (Library Level 2, Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall Street, New Haven
CT). It is open to the public 10:00 – 6:00pm daily except holidays.[Mike Widener's post on the exhibit on the blog of the Goldman Law Library is here.]